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The Tytus Thread

Kind of hard to keep track of all the news about each figure in one thread. I think Titus is a great looking figure and I definitely wasn't expecting to see him revealed. My one complaint would be the lack of some articulation. Has Mattel stated why?

I have heard that the figure is rotocast but I'm not 100% sure it's official yet. Rotocast is essentially hollow on the inside, and they use rotocast to make bigger toys cause it's cheaper to make. But because it's hollow on the inside it may be harder to articulate like a normal figure. IIRC some old toy biz rotocast stuff had double jointed knees...

I am definately passing. Reason being: The vintage Tytus was a cool idea, and it is cool in theory because it is a hard to find vintage item, but to release this figure at the current time for $40 doesn't sit well with me. I could buy 2 motuc figures for one of these.

Also, it looks like a lot of tooling went in to this unigue sculpt... why couldn't we have gotten a small vehicle like the sky sled instead??

This might have been a bad investment for Mattel, especially at that price point.

His articulation is decidedly 200X style... and his loin-cloth looks like 200X style fur-design. I mean, I know it's probably not a 200X proto or anything, but I am surprised by how much he reminds me of that.

A bit disappointed in the lack of shoulder articulation.. particularly when the DCUC collect and connect figures have shoulder articulation (and bicep artic for that matter).

If it's 40$ then yes like i said it's probably rotocast, rotocast can be made for much cheaper production wise than regular tooled figures.

It's spectacular figure tho i don't get the negativity twoards it? a couple of missing joints, but that totally does not matter to me in the least. I'd rather get this awesome figure done like rotocast for 40$ then get one made with a few extra articulation points for like 70$.

Toy biz made some really kick ass rotocast figures, that i'd say were on par with the 12 inch icons stuff they made it can be done.

I think he looks great, I don't mind that he's a little shorter than the vintage version(I don't want He-Man to look like a Smurf next to him), but I'm in the minority with the bio. While I don't hate it, it's defintely one of my least favorites. Although, what do I know? I loved Evil-Lyn's bio and there were a lot of people that hated it.